Many compare Trump to Putin. I have, too. But the moment right now feels more like the Yeltsin era, when Russia's oligarchs took advantage of an older & somewhat incapacitated leader to privatize the state for their own interests. I wrote about this at length in the 1990s. THREAD 1/
See for instance, McFaul, “Russia's ‘Privatized’ State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation,” Part I, Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring 1998), pp. 25-33. 2/
and McFaul, “Russia's ‘Privatized’ State as an Impediment to Democratic Consolidation,” Part II, Security Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer 1998), pp. 219-236. 3/
McFaul, “Russian Economic Interest Groups: Winners and Losers in the Politics of Economic Reform,” in David Bernstein, ed., Cooperative Business Ventures between U.S. Companies and Russian Defense Enterprises, (Stanford, CA: Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1997), pp. 219-234. 4/
McFaul, “State Power, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Privatization in Russia,” World Politics, Vol. 47, No. 2, (January 1995), pp. 210-243. 5/END
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